“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his fantasy football advice. Nate heads …
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Family, Football & Real Punk Rock
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 14 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his fantasy football advice. Nate enters …
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Family, Football & Small, Healthy Changes
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 15 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his fantasy football advice. Nate enters …
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Family, Football & No Guarantee
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 5 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & The Holiday Hangover
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 16 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Week 16 Shore Thing Sleepers
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 5 minutes read“Shore Thing Sleepers” isn’t your ordinary fantasy football Week 16 start/sit article. Instead, our analyst duo of Seth Woolcock and Nate Polvogt highlight lower-valued players that can provide starting-caliber production for …
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Family, Football & That Time of Year
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 14 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & Nomads
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 17 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & Prime Time
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 16 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & On the Radio
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 17 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & Grateful for a Different Path
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 17 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Week 11 Shore Thing Sleepers
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 3 minutes read“Shore Thing Sleepers” isn’t your ordinary fantasy football Week 11 start/sit article. Instead, our analyst duo of Seth Woolcock and Nate Polvogt highlight lower-valued players that can provide starting-caliber production for …
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Family, Football & Mortality
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 16 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & Elon Musk’s Twitter
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 16 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & Tattoos
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 16 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & The Golden Rule
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 17 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & A Busy Life
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 16 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Week 6 Shore Thing Sleepers
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 4 minutes read“Shore Thing Sleepers” isn’t your ordinary fantasy football Week 6 start/sit article. Instead, our analyst duo of Seth Woolcock and Nate Polvogt highlight lower-valued players that can provide starting-caliber production for …
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Family, Football & Urban Sprawl
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 19 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & Being a Kid
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 17 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & How We Got Here
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 14 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Week 3 Shore Thing Sleepers
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 4 minutes read“Shore Thing Sleepers” isn’t your ordinary fantasy football start/sit Week 3 article. Instead, our analyst duo of Seth Woolcock and Nate Polvogt highlight lower-valued players that can provide starting-caliber production for …
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Family, Football & Fútbol
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 19 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & Getting Older
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 14 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & The Woodshop Years (An Ode to Alan E. Leimbach)
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 18 minutes read“Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life” is a year-round column by Nate Polvogt that shares a Colorado dad’s outlook on life and his weekly advice for fantasy football …
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Family, Football & A Look Back
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 11 minutes read“Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.” – Langston Hughes Life comes at you fast. If you had told me two years …
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Family, Football & Viva Mexico
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 20 minutes read“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts; it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks …
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Family, Football & Rafting
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 13 minutes read“Because in the end, you won’t remember the times you spent in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac Why we even decided to …
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Family, Football & Breathe
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 14 minutes read“Don’t spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.” – Douglas Adams Life can be an overwhelming task at times. The world pulls …
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Family, Football & Spring Has Sprung
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 13 minutes read“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” – Anne Bradstreet Spring …
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Offseason Beats: Rex Orange County & the Miami Dolphins
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 12 minutes readA lot has happened since my previous edition of “Offseason Beats.” The beginning of NFL free agency, unexpected trades galore, court drama and even a drive-by-slapping at the Oscars this …
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Offseason Beats: Halftime Show Review & the Chicago Bears
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 13 minutes readNo matter when you grew up, there is certain music that will always remind you of your youth. If it was the 1980s it might be Motley Crue or Chicago; …
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Family, Football & Fresh Beats
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 11 minutes read“Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better.” – Fernando Alonso Time …
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Family, Football & When the Smoke Subsides
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 12 minutes read“Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that …
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Family, Football & Cheers to You
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 13 minutes read“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” – Goran Persson As …
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Family, Football & The Christmas Spirit
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 9 minutes read“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor We’re just 4 days away from Christmas. Did …
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Family, Football & Us Against the World
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 12 minutes read“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin After a week off and a guest writing appearance from everyone’s favorite hot …
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Family, Football & Attitude
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 11 minutes read“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it …
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Family, Football & Thank You
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 11 minutes read“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” – Frank A. Clark My journey in the fantasy …
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Family, Football & What If
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 12 minutes read“Don’t spend your life wondering ‘what if’ and worrying over something you have no control. What’s done is done. Looking backward will cause you to miss out on new blessings …
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Family, Football & #Movember
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 13 minutes read“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green At times, we all have to do things we maybe don’t want to do. This month, …
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Family, Football & Halloween
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 13 minutes read“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” – Albert Einstein As you all know, this …
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Family, Football & Pivoting
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 12 minutes read“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” – Charles Darwin It’s Tuesday, which …
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Family, Football & Shenanigans
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 14 minutes read“No one looks back on life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep” – Unknown As of late, my writing has been a bit heavy. That comes with …
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Family, Football & Finding Happiness
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 11 minutes read“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. …
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Family, Football & Taking Back Sundays
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 14 minutes read“A family doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to be united.” – Unknown Football and Family. Two integral parts of my weekly column. It’s in the title. For …
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Family, Football & Grief
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 13 minutes read“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” ― Leo Tolstoy …
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Family, Football & the Road to Writing
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 15 minutes read“There’s more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you’ll be able to enjoy your success more. It won’t own you or control you.” …
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Family, Football & It’s Complicated
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 12 minutes read“There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.” ― E.B. White Being a sports fan is a complicated thing. If …
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Family, Football & So It Begins
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 11 minutes read“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life” ― Marc Anthony Football season is almost here! It’s an exciting time for anyone who enjoys …
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Family, Football & Unexpected Inspiration
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 10 minutes read“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” – Paulo Coelho Sometimes in life, you find inspiration …
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Family, Football & It Takes a Village
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 11 minutes read“It takes a village to raise a child.” This saying has been on my mind the last few days. It is a very true statement. A child becomes a sum …
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Family, Football & Camping Adventures
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 15 minutes read“Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul-enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your …
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Family, Football & A Return to Normal
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 11 minutes read“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” – Haruki Murakami If we’re being honest with ourselves, …
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Family, Football & The Company You Keep
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 15 minutes read“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too can become great.” – Mark …
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Family, Football & Shiny Things
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 11 minutes read“Don’t get seduced by the next shiny thing, because you’ll get caught up chasing shiny things and that will keep you from addressing what you really need to accomplish.” – Joe …
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Family, Football & Seeing the World
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 13 minutes read“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine of Hippo Life is nothing if not a series of experiences. Some …
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Family, Football & The End
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 10 minutes read“Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don’t really end, anyway, they just begin again in …
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Family, Football & Holiday Wonders
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 8 minutes read“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor Christmas, oh Christmas. The most wonderful time of …
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Family, Football & Getting Real
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 10 minutes read“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in …
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Family, Football & Appreciation
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 12 minutes read“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson I’ve always loved fantasy sports, mainly football, and have been playing them …
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Family, Football & the Native
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 12 minutes read“Skiing: the art of catching a cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk” – Unknown I’ve lived in Colorado my entire life. The Denver metro …
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Family, Football & Fandom
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 10 minutes read“Football is an honest game. It’s true to life. It’s a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.” – Joe Namath When you’re a kid, it’s …
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Family, Football & Dear Jackson
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 10 minutes read“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…” – John Lennon Dear Jackson, Once upon a time, there was this boy and this girl who met …
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Family, Football & The Drive II
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 9 minutes readFootball was a staple in my home when I was a kid. We watched it on TV each Saturday and Sunday all season long. We played all the “Tecmo Bowl” …
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Family, Football & Punk Rock
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 11 minutes read“Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.” – Pete Wentz Punk rock isn’t just music. It is a movement. A community. …
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Family, Football & Trying to Write “The Great Gatsby”
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 8 minutes read“The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.” – Ralph Charell Writer’s block …
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Family, Football & Gender Equality
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 14 minutes read“A gender line … helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg Things are changing. When I was growing up, gender roles …
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Family, Football & an Escape
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 9 minutes read“Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It’s true drama. You really don’t know what’s going to happen.” – Rich Eisen Sports are an escape. Our particular getaway, …
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Family, Football & Enjoy the Ride
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 10 minutes read“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” – Frank Sinatra It’s been a weekend, folks. Thursday night, my wife, Jen, and I decided to …
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Family, Football & Sheltered
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 9 minutes readLife is hard. No one tells you just how hard when you’re a kid. When I was young, my extended family wasn’t quite the definition of functional. There was drug …
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Family, Football & Hot, Medium & Mild
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 8 minutes read“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve …
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Family, Football & the “Stick To Sports” Crowd
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 5 minutes read“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when …
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Family, Football & #DadLife: Part One
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 9 minutes read“Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.” – Reed Markum It was New Year’s Eve 2016. …
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Family, Football & This Adventure We Call Life: An Introduction
by Nate Polvogtby Nate Polvogt 5 minutes read“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this Earth” – Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939, Yankee Stadium. That about sums it up for me. Here I …